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Club Dread | |
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Directed by | Jay Chandrasekhar |
Written by | Broken Lizard |
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Starring | Jay Chandrasekhar Kevin Heffernan Steve Lemme Paul Soter Erik Stolhanske Brittany Daniel Bill Paxton |
Cinematography | Lawrence Sher |
Edited by | Ryan Folsey |
Music by | Nathan Barr |
Production companies | Broken Lizard Industries Cataland Films |
Distributed by | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
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Running time | 103 minutes[1] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $8.6 million |
Box office | $7.6 million[2] |
Club Dread (also known as Broken Lizard's Club Dread) is a 2004 comedy slasher film directed by Jay Chandrasekhar and written by and starring the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Brittany Daniel, and Bill Paxton. The film follows a group of staff members on a tropical island resort, where an unknown killer begins a murder spree. It’s an international co-production film between the United States and Mexico.
Though the story is set on an island in Costa Rica, filming took place in Mexico.
Club Dread was released on February 27, 2004, and grossed $7.6 million at the box office on a budget of $8.6 million, becoming a financial failure. The film received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics.